Users Guide

Multicast Commands
multicast snooping flood-restrict
Enables multicast snooping flood control for IGMP snooping and MLD snooping.
Syntax
multicast snooping flood-restrict
The no version of this command disables multicast flood control.
Parameters None
Default Enabled
Command Mode CONFIGURATION
Usage
Information
Multicast snooping flood control, IGMP snooping, and MLD snooping are enabled by default.
For multicast flood restrict to be effective on a VLAN, IGMP snooping and MLD snooping must be
enabled at both global and VLAN levels.
To disable multicast snooping flood control, use the no multicast snooping flood-restrict
command.
Example
OS10(config)# multicast snooping flood-restrict
Supported
Releases
10.4.3.0 or later
Internet Group Management Protocol
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is a communications protocol that establishes multicast group memberships using
IPv4 networks. OS10 supports IGMPv1, IGMPv2, and IGMPv3 to manage the multicast group memberships on IPv4 networks.
The IGMP querier periodically (by default, every 60 seconds) sends out a membership query to all the hosts. The hosts, in
response to the query, send a response back to the querier to report their multicast group memberships. The switch makes an
entry to identify the corresponding port as a member of the particular multicast group..
NOTE: A multicast router is a Layer 3 router or switch that has multicast features enabled.
When a host wants to join a multicast group, it sends an IGMP message to the multicast router.
Each network segment has an IGMP querier, which is a multicast router. The multicast router periodically sends IGMP queries to
learn which multicast groups are active and have members on the network.
Multicast routers send the following types of queries:
● General query—To learn about listeners for multicast groups.
● Multicast address-specific query—To learn if a particular multicast address has listeners.
● Multicast address-and-source-specific query—To learn if any of the sources from the specified list for a multicast source
has any listeners.
The hosts send the following messages to multicast routers:
● Version 1: Membership report
● Version 2:
○ Version 1 membership report for backward compatibility with version 1
○ Version 2 membership report
○ Leave group message
● Version 3:
○ Version 1 membership report for backward compatibility with version 1
○ Version 2 membership report for backward compatibility with version 2
○ Version 3 membership report
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